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Lena Waithe's "Queen & Slim" stars Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith as a couple on the run. But she says they're no black Bonnie and Clyde.
Lena Waithe On 'Queen And Slim,' A Black Lives Matter Odyssey The screenwriter's new movie is about a black couple who shoot a white police officer in self-defense during a routine traffic stop.
But for writer Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas, who are also producers on the project, the process of packaging “Queen & Slim” was more seamless than usual.
The beauty of Black cinema was represented Saturday at the gorgeously curated Queen & Slim First Look at Gallier Hall during Essence Festival in New Orleans. Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe and ...
Queen & Slim By Paula Rogo · Updated October 23, 2020 Lena Waithe’s newest project, dubbed “the Black Bonnie & Clyde” in film circles, is finally getting a release date — and we have the ...
Black Hollywood were out for the Queen & Slim screenings that filmmakers Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas held around the country this week.. The duo’s first feature film made its first stop a ...
Later that month, Waithe and Mayo announced their separation just two months after the Queen and Slim writer revealed she had secretly married Mayo, after three years of dating, in a private San ...
Having created a long-running, hit series like The Chi, earned an Emmy for her work writing on Master of None, and written/produced buzzy blockbusters like Queen & Slim, among many other projects ...
At 40, Lena Waithe already has an impressive legacy, ... She wrote the film Queen & Slim and was a producer on the movie Dear White People. But for me, Waithe's real triumph is The Chi.